ESL due-dates AFTER Golden Week

I hope you enjoyed the holiday and your trip to North Star.  Here are the due dates for the middle of May, in case you've forgotten

May 13-17 week for CORE students (10-14 classes/week including 'study-hall'):

Grade Seven  ESL Core students
Wednesday - blog post
Thursday - current events
before Thursday - in Bookworms Club Silver, read "A Walk in Amnesia" on your own time
no reading presentation!

Grade Eight  ESL Core students
Tuesday - current events
before Thursday - in Bookworms Club Silver, read "A Walk in Amnesia" on your own time

no reading presentation!

Grade Nine  ESL Core students
Tuesday - current events
Wednesday - blog post
before Friday - in Bookworms Club Silver, read "A Walk in Amnesia" on your own time

no reading presentation!

May 13-17 week for support students (6 classes/week including 'study-hall'):

Grade Seven support students
Wednesday - blog post
Thursday - current events
Thursday - novel reading presentation

Grade Nine support students
Tuesday - current events
Wednesday - blog post

Thursday - novel reading presentation


5/13, Monday P1 and other study-hall periods
Your blog pages are not fully formatted properly.  Besides posting blog posts, current events, novel reading presentations, and other work that CORE students do, you need to do the following with your blogs, like I have done on mine:
- make sure your blog has a clear and sensible title, such as "CIS ESL"
- make sure your blog page views in ENGLISH
- put up a link-widget and link to the class "CIS ESL" blog and every other student in ESL, like I have done in the top left of mine

That is a minimum.  There are many more interesting things you can and should do with your blog page.

Double-Spaced Printing

From now on, everything that you print to show to me should be double-spaced: otherwise there is nowhere to put my corrections.  This goes for drafts and for final copies.

Thank you.

'A Day in the Life': ESL CORE G9

Do not forget that your 'A Day in the Life' rough copy (first draft) is due to be finished by Tuesday:

- put your name and title on it
- make sure you have 300 words, or more
- print a copy before Tuesday P2
- give me a copy at the start of Tuesday P2

It has to be done so we can all work together on editing it tomorrow, Tuesday.  Yes, you do have Tuesday P1 as time to complete and print it, but don't leave much for the last hour...

'A Day in the Life' final copy is due Wednesday:

- put your name and title on it
- make sure you have 300 words, or more
- print a copy before Wednesday P1
- give me a copy at the start of Wednesday P2
- put it on your blog

Note: this is the assignment for the end of Unit One of the text.  It is much more important for your mark than current events, reading presentations, blog posts or literature circles...

'A Day in the Life': ESL CORE G7&8

Do not forget that your 'A Day in the Life' writing is due to be finished by Wednesday, 08:30, Tokyo time!

Here's what to do:
- put your name and title on it
- make sure you have 300 words, or more
- print a copy before Wednesday P1
- give me a copy at the start of Wednesday P1
- put it on your blog

Note: this is the assignment for the end of Unit One of the text.  It is much more important for your mark than current events, reading presentations, blog posts or literature circles...

ESL due-dates before Golden Week

This week for CORE students (10-14 classes/week including 'study-hall'):

Grade Seven  ESL Core students
Wednesday - blog post
Thursday - reading presentation you already had prepared for last week
Thursday - current events

Grade Eight  ESL Core students
Tuesday - current events
Thursday - reading presentation you already had prepared for last week

Grade Nine  ESL Core students
Tuesday - current events
Wednesday - blog post

Thursday - reading presentation you already had prepared for last week

This week for support students (6 classes/week including 'study-hall'):

Grade Seven support students
Wednesday - blog post
Thursday - current events
no reading presentation!

Grade Nine support students
Tuesday - current events
Wednesday - blog post

no reading presentation!

Next week for all students (4/29-5/03)
Nothing!  Golden Week!

The week of the overnight trip (5/06-5/10)
Nothing!

The middle week of May (5/13-5/17)
All the normal homework will be due on the regular days of the week for you:
- reading presentation for support students
- no reading presentation for CORE students
- current events from all students
- blog post for all grades seven and eights

Comment!

Good morning.

First, sign-in to your own ESL blog or the link-back to your own blog identity will not work properly.

Second, I need everyone's blog URLs.  If I already have yours on the top-left of this blog, go to the next paragraph.  If I do not yet have it, write it now on the whiteboard, with your name.

Now your job is to comment on every other ESL student's blog somewhere, nicely.  You may comment to any of their posts: blog post, novel review, current events, etc.  However, find everyone's blog from the links on the top-left of this blog, and blog once on each person's blog, or more.  Eleven comments total, or more.

Thanks.

Best post of the week: 2013/04/01

From Turkey, again!

However, the postings from our boys are getting much better.